THE PLAYGOER'S GUIDE

IT WILL not always be possible to announce in this column the exact dates of the first performances of new plays, as it frequently occurs that these are necessarily postponed or changed. This month, for instance, there will be a number of new plays presented, but at the hour of going to press, the managers are unable to state definitely either the dates or the particular theatres in which their productions will be made

NOW PLAYING

Adele — By Jean Briquet and Paul Herve. LONGACRE THEATRE, 48th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, Mats. Wed. and Sat. A clever musical farce by the author and composer of "Alma, Where Do You Live?" Excellently acted, with Natalie Alt, Georgia Caine, and Hal l'orde in the chief r⩽ beautifully staged and costumed

America — HIPPODROME, Sixth Avenue, between 43d and 44th Streets, Mats, daily. Another big spectacle of the sort for which this resort has become famous. The many scenes begin with the landing of Columbus, jumping from 1492 to 1913. when a rapid tour of the many contrasted localities of this country is brilliantly, faithfully and rapidly made. There is a spectacular ballet, with its jewels and brilliant colors reflected in a clear lake; but the sensation of the show is an automobile, carrying five passengers, which races down a mountainside and plunges into a lake.

At Bay — By George Scarborough, author of "The Lure." THIRTY-NINTH STREET THEATRE, 39th Street, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue. Mats. Wed. and Sat. A girl in selfdefense. kills a man and is saved from justice by the wit of her Irish lover. Cast is headed by Guy Standing and Chrystal Herne, and includes George Howell, Walter Horton. Edwin Mordant, John Herne, and Edward Lehay.

The Auctioneer — By Charles Klein and Lee Arthur. BELASCO THEATRE. 44th Street, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue. Mats. Thurs. and Sat. A revival of David Warfield's first success as a star under the management of David Belasco. His impersonation of the Jewish peddler is one of the masterpieces of the American stage. Marie Bates reappears in her old rôle.

The Black Mask: The Bride: En Deshabille: Felice: A Pair of White Gloves — PRINCESS THEATRE, 30th Street, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue, Mats. Wed. and Sat. The Black Mask, by F. Tennyson Jesse and H. M. Harwood; a tragedy of northern England; cast includes Holbrook Blinn and Emelie Polini. The Bride, by William J. Hurlburt; a farce; cast includes William J. O'Neill, Vaughan Trevor, Holbrook Blinn, Edward Ellis, Emelie Polini. En Deshabille, by Edward Goodman; a young man and a young woman find themselves in the same bedchamber by mistake, but as they have been married the proprieties arc preserved; cast includes Holbrook Blinn and Willette Kershaw. Felice, by M. Hernaiz Becerra; a Parisian murder mystery solved in one short act; cast includes Edward Ellis, Emeie Polini, Vaughan Trevor. A Pair of White Gloves, by Andre de Lorde and Pierre Chaine; something quite new in the strangling line. The heroine who has a grudge against the bad Russian nobleman chokes him to death with her gloves in a most ingenious manner. Cast includes Miss Kershaw, Mr. Blinn, Mr. Trevor, Mr. Edgard, Miss Tyler.

The Doll Girl: The Censor and the Dramatist -GLOBE THEATRE, Broadway, between 46th and 47th Street, Mats. Wed. and Sat. The Doll Girl, by Leo Fall: a lively musical comedy, adapted from a Viennese original with numerous American songs added to the Leo Fall score. Hattie Williams is at her best, and Richard Carle is fairly funny. Cast also includes Charles McNaughton, Cheridah Simpson, Robert Evett, and Will West. The Censor and the Dramatist. by J. M. Barrie: the latest bit of Barrie burlesque. Cast includes Richard Carle, Hattie Williams, Will West, Charles McNaughton, Ralph Nairn, Victor LeRoy, Roger Davis.

The Family Cupboard — By Owen Davis. THE PLAYHOUSE, 137 West 48th Street, Mats. Wed. and Sat. A sensational play of New York life concerning people of fashion and _ of the Tenderloin. Frank, intense, and "gripping" for people who do not mind strong meat. Cast includes William Morris, Olive Thorne, Forrest Winnant, Irene Fenwick, and Franklyn Ardell.

The Fight — By Bayard Veiller. HUDSON THEATRE, 130 West 44th Street, Mats. Wed. and Sat. A sensational drama by the author of "Within the Law." Up-to-date, bold, interesting, if not very plausible, in its depiction of a woman's candidacy for mayor of a small Colorado city, and her fight against child labor and white slavery. Cast includes Margaret Wycherley, Felix Krembs, William McVay, Margerie Wood.

The Girl and the Pennant — By Rida Johnson Young and Christy Mathewson. LYRIC THEATRE, 213 West 42c! Street, Mats. Wed. and Sat. A baseball romance. Cast includes William Courtenay, Lola Fisher, Ralph Stuart, Florence Reed.

The Great Adventure — By Arnold Bennett. BOOTH THEATRE, West 45th Street. Mat. Sat. A comedy about an artist whose valet dies, being mistaken for him and buried in Westminster Abbey. Thereupon, the painter, supposedly dead, makes a new career for himself The play was one of the foremost successes of the latest London season. Cast includes Janet Beecher, Sarah Allgood, Lyn Harding.

Half an Hour: The Younger Generation LYCEUM THEATRE, 45th Street, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue, Mats. Thurs. and Sat. Half an Hour by J. M. Barrie; a piece in only one act, typical of Barrie's whimsical wit and has Grace George in its chief rdle. — The Younger Generation by Stanley Houghton; a realistic, searching play in three acts, by the author of "Hindle Wakes," dealing with the hypocritical Puritanism to be observed in many middle-class families of present-day England. Cast includes Stanley Drewitt in the rfile he "created" in the London production a year ago, and Ernest Lawford.

Her Little Highness — By Pollock, Wolf, and DeKoven. LIBERTY THEATRE, 42d Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, Mat. Wed. and Sat. A musical dramatization of Channing Pollock's "Such a Little Queen." Cast includes Mizzi Hajos, Willard Lewis, Wallace McCutcheon, Allan Pollock, Harriet Burt.

Indian Summer— By Augustus Thomas. CRITERION THEATRE, Broadway and 44th Street. Mats. Wed. and Sat. A modern comedy with a touch of melodrama. The cast is headed by

John Mason and Martha Hedman and includes ary Norton, Walter Hale, Louis Payne, Warner P. Richmond, Amelia Gardner, Harry Leighton, Creighton Hall.

The Love Leash — By A. Richardson and Edmund Breeze. HARRIS THEATRE. 254 West 42d Street, Mat. Sat. An up-to-date comedy in which women receive their rights as well as their due. Cast is headed by Grace Filkins. The Lure — By George Scarborough MAXINE ELLIOTT'S THEATRE, 39th Street, between Broadway and S xth Avenue. Mats. Wed. and Sat A high y colored melodrama depicting the narrow escape of a girl from white slavery. Bold to a degree never before attempted on the New York Stage. Cast includes Vincent Serrano, Mary Nash, Dorothy Dorr, George Probert.

Madam President — By Maurice Hennequin and Pierre Weber. GARRICK THEATRE. 35th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Mats. Wed. and Sat. A typical, risque farce from the Palais-Royal, Paris. Fannie Ward plays the leading r61e. Cast ncludes Pattie Browne, George Giddens, John Dean.

The Marriage Game — By Anne C. Flexner. COMEDY THEATRE, IIO West 41st Street. Mats. Tucs. and Sat. A comedy. The cast includes Alexandra Carlisle, Orrin Johnson, Vivian Martin, Charles Trowbridge, Josephine Lovett, William Sampson, Allison Skipworth, George W. Howard.

The Marriage Market — By Gladys Unger and Victor Jacobi. KNICKERBOCKER THEATRE, Broadway and 38th Street. Mat Wed. and Sat. The latest importation from the London Daly's. A dainty humorous musical comedy of the type of "The Sunshine Girl" which it succeeds. It possesses the sort of charm, in both book and music that is peculiar to plays from London though this one is actually based on a Viennese operatta the original score being retained. The cast "s headed by Donald Brian.

Nearly Married — By Edgar Selwyn. GAIETY THEATRE, Broadway and 46th Street. Mats. Wed. and Sat. A lively American farce about a couple who run away for a "second honeymoon" on the day the divorce they did not really want is granted. Cast includes Bruce McRae Jane Gray, Ruth Shepley, and Georgia Lawrence.

Oh I Say — By Keroul and Bain, music by Jerome Kern. CASINO THEATRE, Broadway and 39th Street. Mats. Wed. and Sat. An imported English musical farce in three acts. Cast includes Alice Yorke, Walter Jones, Flavia Arcaro, Joseph Phillips, Clara Palmer.

Peg O' My Heart—By J. Hartley Manners. CORT THEATRE, 136 West 44th Street. Mats. Wed. and Sat. Comedy, about an uneducated, bright, alluring Irish girl in the household of coldly, aristocratic English relatives. Laurette Taylor's performance of the title-rôle has placed her in the front rank of American actresses. Cast also includes H. Reeves-Smith, H. Hassard Short, Christine Norman, Emelie Melville.

Potash & Perlmutter — Adapted from the stories, by Montague Glass. GEORGE M. COHAN THEATRE, Broadway, between 4 2d and 43d Streets. Mats. Wed. and Sat. A very funny up-to-date play about the Hebrew cloak and garment makers made popular with thousands of readers by Montague Glass's sketches. Their racy humor has been successfully transferred to the stage by an unnamed author, and the parts are very happily realized by Barney Bernard and Alexander Carr.

Prunella — By Lawrence Housman and H. Granville Barker. Music by Joseph Moorat. LITTLE THEATRE, 44th Street. Mats. Wed. and Sat. A romantic, tender, bizarre, fastasy about a girl who has been brought up by her prim, unworldly maiden-aunts, whose life has never ventured beyond an old-fashioned garden until she elopes with the pierrot of a passing troupe of mummers. The cast is headed by Marguerite Clark.

Repertoire — Sir Johnstone Forbes-Robertson. SHUBERT THEATRE, West 44th Street. Mats. Sat. In seven plays which he has chosen for his farewell repertoire, Hamlet, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, The Light that Failed, Caecar and Cleopatra, The Passing of the Third Floor Back, and Mice and Men. Gertrude Elliot plays the leading feminine rôles.

Seven Keys to Baldpate — By George M. Cohan. ASTOR THEATRE, Broadway and 45th Street. Mats. Wed. and Sat. A dramatization of Earle Derr Bigger's fantastic story. Cast includes Wallace Eddinger, Margaret Greene, Gail Kane.

Sweethearts — By Harry B. Smith and Fred de Gresac, with music by Victor Herbert. NEW AMSTERDAM THEATRE, 42d Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Mats. Wed. and Sat. An agreeable operetta. Christie MacDonald has a congenial part in the character of a Continental princess who was stolen in youth to save her from the dangers of war, and has grown to girlhood in the ancient city of Bruges, believing herself the daughter of a laundress. Tom McNaughton is the chief comedian.

Tante — By C. Haddon Chambers. EMPIRE THEATRE, Broadway and 40th Street. Mats. Wed. and Sat. A comedy. Cast is headed by Ethel Barrymore, and includes Charles Cherry, E. Henry Edwards.

The Temperamental Journey — By Leo Ditrichstein. REPUBLIC THEATRE, West 42d Street. Mats. Wed. and Sat. A sentimental farce adapted from the French and produced with all the taste and cleverness one expects from David Belasco. As an artist who is supposed to have drowned himself and attends his own funeral, Mr. Ditrichstein has made a success somewhat similar to and equally great as in "The Concert." Cast also includes Isabel Irving, Josephine Victor, Richie Ling.

Within the Law — By Bayard Veiller. ELTINGE THEATRE, .j2d Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Mats. Wed. and Sat. This popular melodrama is now in its second year at the same theatre. Its story is thrilling and timely, being concerned with the minimum wage question, the underworld, and other topics of contemporary interest. Jane Cowl has resumed the role of Mary Turner. Cast also includes Orme Caldara, William B. Mack, Florence Nash.

OPENING

The Pleasure Seekers — WINTER GARDEN, Broadway and 51st Street. Mats. Tues., Thurs., and Sat.

AT THE OPERA

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE

November 3rd, (afternoon and evening)Pavlowa in Russian Dances.—

November 17th. (Opening) Massenet's Manon. Farrar. Caruso, Gilly, Rothier, Segurola; Toscanini conducting.

In the first week. Verdi's Masked Bali, with Destinn, Hempel, Matzenauer, Caruso, and Amato.

In the third week. Strauss's Rosenkavalier, with Hempel, Ober, Case, Goritz; Hertz will conduct. In Christmas week.L'Amore Dei Tre Re, by a new Italian composer, Montemezzi. Bori, F'errari-Fontana, Amato, Didur, will sing; Toscanini will conduct.

THE CENTURY OPERA HOUSE

Central Park West and Sixty-second Street. Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday.

The operas announced below will be sung during the entire week following the date announced for the initial performance. All performances will be in English, excepting the last, which will be sung in the original language.

November 4. Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.November 11. Saint SaSns's Samson and Delilah.November 18. Verdi's II Trovatore.

November 25. Massenet's Tha'is.

TIIA NKSGIVING (matinee) Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel.

December 2. Charpentier's Louise.

December oPuccini's La Boheme.

December 16. Balfe's The Bohemian GirLDecember 23. Bizet's Carmen.

CHRISTMAS (matinee) Hansel and Gretel. December 30. Massenet's Manon.

HAMMERSTEIN'S NATIONAL GRAND OPERA HOUSE

Monday November^ 24. Gounod's Romeo and Juliet. (In French). Cast to include Orville Harrold and Gemma Bellincioni.

Tuesday, November 25, and Wednesday, November 26 (matinee). Popular prices. Verdi's Othello. (In English). Cast to include William Castleman (a recent Hammerstein "discovery") as Othello, and Maurice Renaud (if he will consent to sing in English) as Iago.

Wednesday, November 26 (night). Camille Erlanger's Aphrodite. (In French). With practically the same cast that sang in the premifere at the Paris Op6ra last winter including Marthe Chenal and Andr6 Allard.

Thursday, November 27. Popular prices. Verdi's Othello. (In English) (Tuesday's cast).

Friday, November 28 Verdi s Rigoletto. (In Italian). With Maurice Renaud in the titlc-r61e.

Saturday, November 29 (matinee). Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. (In Italian). Cast to include Maria Barrientos, Orville Harrold, and Giuseppe Danise.

Saturday, November 29 (night). (Popular prices.) Verdi's LaTraviata. (In Italian). Victoria Fer, Giuseppe Paganelli, and Giuseppe Danise.